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endorsement this morning as the momentum before for campaign rolls on plus the vice president taking a tough stance on israel after meeting one-on-one with prime minister netanyahu will show you what she said and donald trump tapping the brakes on a possible september debate against harris all right. 5:00 a.m. here in washington, a live look at capitol hill on this friday hey morning. who's been a very long couple of weeks. i don't know about you. i am very glad it's friday. good morning to you. i'm kasie hunt. it's wonderful to have you with us just in to cnn. kamala harris landing her biggest endorsement to date, her ascension to the top of the democratic ticket. all but complete i can't have this phone call without saying to my girl, camila, i am proud of you. this is going to be

historic. >> we call to say michelle and i couldn't be prouder to endorse you do everything we can to get you through this election and into the oval office or my goodness michelle brock, this means so much to me. i am looking forward to doing this with the two of you, doug and i both former president barack obama and michelle obama both giving vice president harris their endorsement. i think conclusion of her first whirlwind week as the presumptive nominee, they join a long list of democratic party leaders who are giving harris a boost. its including president biden, dr. jill biden, the clintons congressional leaders, chuck schumer, hakeem, jeffries the nancy pelosi, the whole lineup, the obamas had remained on the sidelines until now. obama had said earlier in the week, he wanted to see how the process played out inside the party but now they're ready to put their weight behind harris. the new statement on the endorsement, they say, quote, at a time when the stakes have never been higher, she gives us all a reason to hope my panel joins us now, stephen neukam, congressional reporter for

axios, and cheyenne, daniel's race and politics reporter for the hill. good morning to both of you. thank you so much for being here. steven, let me start with you. i mean, look, this was expected, right? we didn't expect this to go any other way but it is kind of the the button on the end of a rollout of democratic dortmund's that really show the party is united behind her, as i will say some attacks from republicans say that this is something that democratic leaders have orchestrated but at the same time, there's no real opposition to harris at this point. what do you make of the obamas? move here? >> yeah. it was a rollout, but it was also sort of breakneck speed from last sunday when the president dropped out of the race to by tuesday, wednesday, she was the presumptive nominee, and now she has all of party leadership from capitol hill. you know, the donors, former party leaders, who are behind her now and look, i think this shows that the party is relieved. they were in free fall for about three to four weeks after the debate, trying to figure out what they were

going to do at the top of the ticket and the conversations that i've had specifically with democratic senators, it is a feeling of relief. senate campaigns are relieved to actually have something to be enthusiastic about, and not have to have this conversation about what are we going? to do at the top of the presidential five shift, israel shall we say cheyenne, one of the places where we've seen a lot of excitement. i'm karen finney has been on with us a couple of times this week and she's talked about these calls that she's been on zoom calls should she said they had 44,000 i was housing people on these calls fundraising calls, and of course, the obamas have a critical role to play with these communities as well. what are you hearing in terms of how this may change the game in states that harris would need if she wants to get to to 70 at the end of the day? >> absolutely. i think what's really interesting and we hear the obamas message about this being a moment of hope or that she's giving hope to folks, is that's what we're hearing from folks on the ground. that's what we're hearing from

organizers, is that xi is offering a step forward, particularly for black voters. and in this moment it's still important for black men. there saying that she is going to be able to bring black men back into the democratic party, especially actually in these swing states. and without those voters, without suburban women voters in these swing states, she would not be able to win and democrats would lose the white house. >> yeah, it's, it's, it's one of those things where it's not clear that she's really going to be able to have enough information yet to figure out if georgia, for example, it's going to be back in play based on enthusiasm from black voters. but that's certainly what people i'm talking to are watching for. stephen. let's touch on veepstakes so to speak. i want to show you what senator mark kelly, who is floating around somewhere near the top of that list right now, it had to say recently about whether or not he would be willing to do the job if asked? >> i've been a public service even before. an ambulance the

job of the united states senate the highest surface i've had to my country it was not about me but i've always always when i've had the chance to serve, i think that's very important so of course, kelly, the senator from arizona possible possibly someone who could help harris shore up her immigration related credentials, which is something that republicans are going to attack her on as well, are already seeing that day in and day out. >> what is your sense of where this stands yeah. >> there's a few theories right now. democrats were talking to about who the best vp pick is. yes, the argument for kelly is trying to bolster the argument in arizona. there's some that is skeptical that the party would take a democratic extend our out of the senate with how important that majority is going to be. yes, there's a democratic governor who would appoint a democrat, but you have, you get into a situation with a special election and then you have the

governor's there's a lot of talent and the governor's mansions, i think there's a lot of conversation around shapiro in pennsylvania locking up pennsylvania would be huge for the party, the keystone state and then there's a question about expanding the map in north carolina with worried cooper. so all these are options that are on the table. but i think we're going to get a decision pretty quickly by the beginning, early august from the harris campaign. >> yeah, they're looking at august 7 because that's when that virtual roll call is set to take place. cheyenne, i also wanted to show i mean, this is one thing where you're seeing kind of celebrities come out and mass for harris. there was a zoom call that included singers actresses sports stars. it started this one starts with meghan rapinoe's us soccer starlink let's just watch a little bit of that white women. >> this is our opportunity to show up not only for ourselves, but for black women. >> they've given us the whole

playbook on how to show up and energize and beat organized. >> i'm just really grateful that us women are going to have a voice and we've always made our voices heard and now it's time to just get extra loud interesting white women. >> i mean, here we are. i have to admit when i was writing stuff down, i was like parents for kamala, i don't know karen's for camila per connie briton. >> an interesting way to frame it that this was a bunch of white women, celebrities who got together to say, hey, we're on board with this, but clearly, welcome from the harris campaign. >> oh, yes, absolutely. so this is something that we have seen donald trump campaign be able to do pretty successfully, which is get celebrities on their side and be able to have particularly black celebrities be able to say, hey, we're endorsing him and that's you know, we're thinking about ii, formerly kanye west. we think about amber rose showing up, although, you know she dated some folks so it all started

depends on who you're looking at, but this is something that democrats have struggled with us to get these big names behind them. some definitely a step in the right direction for the democrat. >> well, i mean, look, i would say that the trump campaign at the rnc brought out the people that they had. typically, we've seen a lot more in hollywood. jeffrey katzenberg has been out promoting president biden and before this but you definitely have more voices speaking out now that biden has stepped aside. alright, stephen neukam, cheyenne daniels. thank you both very much. i really appreciate it. >> we got to get to this developing story now, paris police are stepping up security following coordinated malicious attacks on french train lines ahead of the olympic opening ceremonies. >> francis state railway company is asking all travelers to postpone their trips, if possible. and not go to the station's cnn national security analyst, juliette kayyem joins us live now from paris, juliette, good morning to you. what do we know about this and what are you what are you watching for here? >> so everyone was focused on paris and the opening ceremonies that start in just a

few hours. they are on the seine river just a very concentrated effort on the safety and security side. and then of course, outside of paris 33 successful attacks. there were there was one that was thwarted on the high-speed rail, which is going to impact 700, to 800,000 passengers at this stage, we don't know to what extent those are commuters, although paris, it was just it's walking around is pretty quiet. that think it's mostly just a olympics. people related to the olympics right now but people are staying outside the city. there are trying to get in and then you also have the concern of the athletes and to make sure that they can get to where they need. we're hearing now. i mean, two things things have happened. one is that the paris olympic committee just canceled their press conference about the opening ceremonies because i think they don't know what the impact is going to be. this just happened a couple of hours ago and second is they are going to anticipate this

disruption at least through the first weekend of the olympics and that's going to impact of courses success of the olympics. and then what the spectator expectations are. all these people are here now hoping to see these events that are that are throughout pair, throughout paris in the suburbs, not just in the city center alright, juliette kayyem for us with that update, julia, i'm sure will be coming back with us, keep us posted. >> thank you so much. >> coming up next here on cnn this morning, vice president harris delivering a message to israel, that reportedly angered prime minister netanyahu plus donald trump accused of backpedaling on his pledge to debate his opponent and how the trump campaign is looking to shore up support in america's rust belt introducing allison's blacks arrives. >> she thinks are flaky gray patches are all people see oh, tesla is the number one prescribed pill to treat plaque

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you've known every israeli prime minister for 50 years don't go them here. so from a proud jewish zionist to a proud irish-american zionist, i want to thank you for 50 years. he's a public service and 50 years of support for the state of israel president biden, hosting israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu at the white house yesterday, biden smiling as netanyahu called him an irish american zionist vice president harris also meeting with the prime minister yesterday. >> it seems her meeting wasn't quite as cold posey harris had this to say afterwards israel has a right to defend itself and how it does so matters i also expressed with the prime minister, mai serious concern about the scale of human suffering in gaza including the death of far too many innocent civilians and i made clear my serious concern about the dire

humanitarian situation. >> there we cannot look away in the face of these tragedies. we cannot allow ourselves to become numb to the suffering. and i will not be silent alright, cnn's max foster joins us now from london. >> max, we're learning this from axios, barak ravid, who has really strong winds into the prime minister's office in israel. they say quote, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu was upset by biden he's president kamala harris is on-camera statement after their meeting and is concerned it will harm negotiations over a gaza hostage and ceasefire deal. and israeli official said in a briefing with reporters harris, a statement after the meeting was much more critical than what she told netanyahu in the meeting, one israeli official claimed what do you make of what she said there? what the israelis are saying afterward? honestly, her on-camera statement makes a lot of sense to me in the political context of what she is dealing with here. now at the top of

the democratic ticket, where she is trying to unite the democratic party that has been very divided by the way, president biden has been handling this tor, but what do you see from your vantage point what she it won't work because it's such a profound issue and we need to know where she stands on it issue completely in lockstep with joe biden while largely but there was a difference in tone. >> i felt to kamala harris and joe biden on this issue. so yes, she recognizes is girls right to defend itself, but then she spent a lot of time saying there are conditions that should be applied to that, how you defend yourself and the amount of civilians that are dying there, and how she will not remain silent. so very clear message as she was quite southern when she gave very tough and i think that was quite telling because there's been a lot of talk in diplomatic circles that she's going to be more sympathetic to palestinians. an oversimplistic way of looking at it. i think what she was doing there, we're saying she's going to have a much more balanced view.

between palestinians and israelis when it comes to this in terms of the axios common, it's going to frustrate netanyahu because one of his ongoing issues it's when other countries criticize, when they give equivalents to both sides, he feels that isn't equivalence to both sides. i think that was reflected actually in kamala harris's a speech there for a lot of people, it's quite subtle, but i think the tone was very punchy. >> the town was very different. i completely agree with you on that. now, the one thing that's also interesting here is that obviously now it's harris versus trump and while donald trump's administration was very pro, israel, when he was in power, and trump campaigns on this. and honestly criticizes jewish people for voting for democrats around this, which is, you know would set that aside for a second. one thing trump does seem to be acknowledging now is the public

relations challenge that netanyahu is facing. that's how he frames it. listen to what he told fox on thursday i want them to finish up and get it done quickly. >> you got to get it done quickly because they are getting decimated with this publicity. and israel is not very good at public relations. i'll tell you that israel for whatever reason, you have jewish people out there wearing yarmulke is and air pro palestine you've never seen it as a people have never seen anything like this. there public relations are not good and they've got to get this done fast so this of course, the longtime brand marketer donald trump, saying this, it would seem to me that it seems like no matter which one of these candidates, bibi netanyahu ends up with. >> he's going to face some pressure on the war question well, you know, donald trump is probably very tuned in to what many people in israel feeling

right now. it is bad pr, a lot of what netanyahu is doing as far as they're concerned, he's not very popular. he wouldn't win an election according to the polls. he, was there now he does have a bad pr and getting it done is exactly what many israelis want. they want an end to this war. obviously this, they want a certain end to the war, but they want it done sooner rather than later. we've been talking about this all week, how that so many people think it was inappropriate that netanyahu was even in america, but it should be focusing on the deal. so i think actually trump is speaking to what a lot of people think that it's get the deal done and consider israel's brand really on the world stage because it's being is, it's a confused bat brand at best, isn't it? because we're hearing so many mixed messages from within israel about what they think about government policy doesn't feel cohesive but i had a question for you about the trump meeting, which was i've been

reading about some beef between biden and trump because biden didn't support trump in a certain election. and sorry, netanyahu and trump because netanyahu supported, gave congratulations to biden, rather went out of that election. so it wasn't very clear on that. so i'm interested in the attention they might have in that meeting based on what you know about trump yeah. >> that netanyahu was too quick to congratulate joe biden. yeah, this is of course, one of donald trump's driving grievances throughout all of this i do think it's going to be a very the tenor of the meeting will be very interesting. i think, you know, behind closed doors netanyahu has been willing to hug donald trump in a way that is, at the time when this was all starting out with something of an unusual way to deal with an election from the israeli perspective, it was very clear,

i think to democrats and frustrating that he was willing to do that. but they clearly have had some issues between them that netanyahu feels he needs to resolve. otherwise, why would he be going down there? max foster for us this morning, max. thank you. i really appreciate it. >> all right. coming up next here. a wildfire in california quickly burning out of control, no end in sight. plus we continue we to follow a developing story in paris, coordinated sabotage french train lines targeted by multiple malicious acts on the day of the olympics opening ceremony pain means pause on the things you love brene me go the pain with bio free and keep on going. bio freeze. >> green means go with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. my skin was no longer mine. >> my active psoriatic arthritis joined symptoms, held me back.

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you i'm ready to debate donald trump. i have agreed to the previously agreed upon september 10 debate. he agreed to that previously now appears he is backpedaling, but i'm ready and i think the voters deserve to see the split screen that exists in this race on a debate stage. and so i'm ready, let's go trump, apparently not quite ready to go. >> here's what he said about debating harris earlier this week well, i haven't agreed to anything. >> i agreed to a debate with joe biden if kamala harris does end up being the democratic nominee, will you commit to debating her at least one time? oh, yes, absolutely. i would be willing to do more than one debate actually certainly contradictory messages there. >> okay. last night, trump's campaign issued this statement, quote, the general election debate details cannot be finalized until democrats formally decide on their nominee. it would be inappropriate to schedule things with harris because democrats very well could still change their minds joining us

now, akayla gardner, white house correspondent for bloomberg news and sabrina rodriguez. she's national political reporter for the washington post. welcome to both of you. wonderful to have you. akayla, it does seem like we are likely to see a debate between these two people. clearly, they were willing to agree to a presumptive nominee i mean, they debate, don't have already debated the presumptive nominee, right? joe biden hadn't been formally nominated in june when his disastrous debate performance unfolded in many ways, they got what they wanted like several months earlier, right? and now they do have to deal with this new situation what is your sense of how this unfolds? what's the next turn of the screw? >> yeah, i think absolutely they are going to agreed to a debate. i think they're both eager to do that. but really the strategy we're seeing here from the trump campaign is something that they did already with the vice presidential debate. they tried to leave the door open that vice president harris wouldn't be the nominee. of course, that age well. and that is exactly what happened. it has much listing now that it's pretty clear that she has the delegates. she has a supports he has major endorsements from pretty much

every party leader, and she's going to pretty easily slide into that spot. so i think really the question is, how are they going to pick? they have built their career, or they've built this campaign off of defeating joe biden, who was very unpopular, who is obviously had many concerns about his age. harris is almost the opposite of that. so they're really trying to come up with new attack lines are trying to attack her on the border. it's calling her a week prosecutor. i'm really interested to see how they sort of crystallize a message that could work in the debate. a potentially sabrina the last time we saw donald trump debate, a woman and i should, i should actually wish our producer should bring up that where he kind of stocked hillary clinton around the stage at one point the optics of this are going to be very different if they unfold than they would be between trump and biden what is your reporting bit about how democrats are preparing, preparing for this viewing, this in terms of the opportunity might present i mean, this is something that we see vice president harris

absolutely welcomed. >> like this is for her. she is excited to debate him because of those optics like this is something she has dealt with, not just as vice president, but throughout her entire career. i mean, the levels of sexism and racism that we're seeing in a lot of the attacks. i mean, we can expect to see that on a debate between queen her and donald trump really their sort welcoming that. i mean, we've seen just this week, i'm like the conversation around like childless cat ladies and how there's just been this rallying around women for commonly harris. so they know that that's the setup. >> this is the video this full screen, this, so this is, this is what happened when they did a town hall debate. it, right? hillary clinton in 2016. and donald trump essentially standing behind her looming over her shoulder. keep in mind, he could have been seated on if i recall correctly, there were stools available for the candidates or even the camera man shooting whoever man or woman shooting this frame is kind of trying to figure out what to do kayla, i mean, this is the kind of imagery that i

think is part of why you are seeing such so much sort of galvanizing of women. because i think everybody remembers how this went down in 20 16. >> yeah, i think it's going to backfire very easily. we've heard speaker mike johnson pretty much telling his party do not focus attacks on gender and race. there pretty much walking into their own travel pier, kamala harris does not have to fight back against those things. those are obviously very bigotry, or there's obviously a lot of distaste there in those attacks, but i think at the end harris, has strong debate skills. she's going to perform well regardless. and i think trump is really going to have to pivot because by an obviously did not have those same skills there the white house press secretary, karine jean-pierre, address this from what kayla was talking about from the podium on thursday. >> let's just look at how she talked about some of the attacks that have been coming off capitol hill against kamala harris when you have the lead,

the speaker of the house set up a meeting to tell republican leaders to stop being races, to stop being dishonest, to stop being sexist. i think that says a lot and in fact, i mean, i've talked to a number of republicans, sabrina, who say this is not the way to do this. this is a risk that doesn't mean that they're able to control the house republican conference how much of a risk is this for republicans to go down these roads? >> i mean, it's a huge risk at this point. and really when you look at it, i mean, it doesn't take very much to see what the lines of attack that are effective could be. i mean, if they focus on policy and they focus on what people perceive to be failures from the biden administration. i mean, that makes sense of but when we're talking about racism and sexism coming from the republican party, is it necessarily surprising to see those attacks know, but to kayla's point, i mean it's like they're falling into their own trap when we know that this is not going to be the most effective thing. as

we lead to, as you're trying to really court those center a moderate voters heading into the election. sure. you want to amp-up the republican base that's a different story. but if we're talking about heading to a general elections is not a primary. this is a general and you need to figure out what is going to motivate those people in the middle. >> all right. akayla gardner, sabrina rodriguez. thank you both very much for being here. i really appreciate it all right. >> coming up next here on cnn this morning, kamala harris held her first rally as a presidential candidate in wisconsin. but can she hold on to the rust belt states that joe biden one in 2020, we're going to discuss that ahead. >> plus opening ceremonies at the olympics will go on as planned tonight in paris, despite a big attack, a massive attack in paralyzing the city's high-speed rail lines. >> we've just learned that parson may have been involved watch this witness. >> what happens to this woman's bags under her eyes in an actual time lapse in just minutes. the problem well disappear before your eyes with

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doubt, two democrats in that blue wall set of states that were part of what i one's called the blue wall. >> so someone from the blue wall, pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin for those closely following our presidential race, you may be familiar with these so-called blue wall, that of course refers to a handful of states, michigan, pennsylvania, and wisconsin that up until trump's 2016 victory had helped democrats win elections for decades. >> after that race. the broader rust belt region has emerged as a crucial highly competitive battleground with both parties campaigning heavily. there if you watched the republican national convention last week, the vice presidential nominee, j.d vance, was not exactly subtle about his pursuit of votes in those states oh, wait, i know. >> you guys, we've got to we're going to chill with the ohio love. we gotta win michigan too here. so it's about the auto worker in michigan. it's about the

factory worker and wisconsin, it's about the energy worker in pennsylvania hi as who the factories of ohio, pennsylvania, michigan, and wisconsin all the forgotten communities in michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania, and ohio. and every corner of our nation i just will offer you an obligatory go blue beat ohio. all right. let's move on. joining me now to discuss paul kendrick. he is executive director of rust belt rising and democratic group that aims to reconnect the party to working families in the region. paul, good morning. it's wonderful to have you thanks so much for having me on and good morning so paul, your organization does a lot of research pulling, kind of digging into what exactly is going to move the needle in these critical rust belt states. >> and i know you've been kind of starting to get a sense of what the change from joe biden to kamala harris means for democrats that's in the region. what are the opportunities for her and the potential vulnerabilities yeah, we find her running about two point stronger than president

biden was because she's able to pull in some of those independents and those who are thinking about voting third party, particularly young people that democrats really need in our research suggests that trump may have a ceiling in the mid to upper 40s and as she goes out there and is able to talk about freedom and families future, she may be able to get that anti maga majority back together. >> that gets over 50% paul wouldn't do you see among black voters in particular, because we'd seen a number of trump's surrogates go to detroit to try to court black men for example, they really saw that as an opportunity. >> does harris eat into that or prevent that switch over yeah, absolutely. >> we're already seeing real jumps in enthusiasm as talking to a leader in benton harbor,

michigan just yesterday and saying you know, it's coming out of the woodwork people really excited to get out there, share personal experience, to share stories, to talk about different economic issues and the solutions and how i president harris is really cares about and is focused on the things that families need to get ahead. and as a real vision for our future to go forward and so we really do think that any advantage judge, that trump was aiming for, we can strongly counteract in that vice president harris is going to have that kind of obama esq., turnout that will help us to be able to win these blue wall states paul, if she has work to do where is it well, i think biden did it as president biden, it did have some strong residual trust with elders and one thing we found in our research is that 60%, almost percent of our michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania voters found good and true that democrats won medicare being

able to negotiate prescription drug prices to bring those costs of our medicines down. and i know canvassers and we're just sharing their personal experience. i can't believe how much money are able to save on anti-cancer medication and but hearing aids, inhalers, insulin and so i think being able to talk but that and protecting social security, protecting health care and always just talking about our values and our stories and our personal experiences, i think will help really hold on and to some of the older voters. but we're already seeing real increases in younger voters. should we really needed based on what we've been seeing for the past year, two interesting guess always that tension between older voters who show up reliably younger voters you've got to pull into the process for the first time. interesting, she's got some work to do with those communities. paul, very grateful to have you and your insights this morning. hope you'll come back. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> all right. time now for sports, we are just hours away from the olympic opening ceremony in paris. but the day

is off to a rocky start. andy scholes has this morning's bleacher report, andy, good morning. >> yeah. good morning. kasie. so the opening ceremony for the first time ever, it's not in a stadium, is outside on the river sin and it's rainy there in paris today as those valid 70% so chance is going to be raining when the opening ceremony starts at one eastern on top of that for its official say the country's train lines were targeted by multiple malicious acts. and what has been described as coordinated sabotage to disrupt travel ahead of the opening ceremony. the railway company in france posted on x telling travelers who can to postpone their trip and not go to this station harris is police chief, says they are stepping up security at stations around the city olympic organizers were supposed to hold an opening ceremony, press conference this morning but it it was canceled. or women's world number two tennis player coco gauff is set to make her olympic debut in paris, and that's not cool enough. she's going to be carrying the flag for the u.s. stay in today's opening

ceremony alongside lebron james, is cnn's coy wire spoke with twenty-year-old about how she's processing at all once i've got told that i was going to be flag barrier, obviously you can see by the reaction i was just and i didn't really know what to say. >> i think a lot of people are laughing at me saying, oh, because i really didn't know what to say and then and then what have what type of motions were you feeling? >> and when it started to sink in, what had just happened it took a while for it to sink in. i still haven't really sound like sunken and i mean, so maybe we're coming up to say congratulations, not just from teen usa, but from other sports and countries as well. so i don't think i don't think it will until maybe honestly, like a year from now or something because i think it's gonna be one of those things that you're like i can't believe i just did that type thing that the games are already underway and the u.s. >> women's soccer team off to a good start shredding the rodman here and incredible spin who is 17 minutes bury the opening goal for team usa against zambia, mallory swanson

then scored two goals in just over a minute time us was up three at the half and would go on to win by that score. next up for team is going to be germany on sunday. another update it from drone gate, canada soccer has sent home there, head coach beverly priestman as the investigation continues into the team, either illegally spying on their opponents with drones monday, a candidate staff member was caught using a drone to spy on new zealand's practice that staff member in an assistant were sent home wednesday. we'll after further investigation priestman has now also been sent home canadian broadcaster tsn claims the team has been engaged for years in efforts to film the closed-door training sessions of their opponents, including saying during the women's gold medal winning olympic tournament back in 2021. now cnn has not independently confirmed the tsn report. canada beat new zealand. yes. yesterday 21 are finally padres fisher, dillon sees through the second no-hitter in franchise history yesterday in a three to nothing

win over the nationals and d he's c, the 28-year-old, struck out nine and walked three batters sees had to convince padres manager michael schill to let them go back out there for the nine he ended up throwing 100 114 pitch it is one over his season-high, but kasie, i know you're a baseball fan. this may have been the greatest three games stretch. a pitcher has ever had by delancey's 22 innings who hits 30 strikeouts over his last three games. pretty incredible. >> that's amazing. that is just amazing. congratulations to him. always fund to see no matter who it is, andy. thank you so much. i really appreciate it. >> all right. coming up here on cnn this morning yourself. rock. this means so much to me kamala harris with a major endorsement this morning, plus the presumptive democratic nominee calling for a ceasefire in gaza after a critical meeting with israeli, the israeli prime minister this

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